Q&A with Josh Lanyon discussion

Here is a super fun task for everyone! Josh is currently editing/rewriting The Haunted Heart: Winter and at the same time he’s also picking songs for The Haunted Heart: Winter Playlist.

Josh would appreciate it if he’d get song suggestions from you guys. So, let’s inspire and pamper him with our eclectic and wild music tastes. ;-) What are the songs you associate with Flynn, Kirk and their winter story?

(He'll pick about ten songs for the final The Haunted Heart: Winter Playlist.)

EDITED AFTERWARDS: The final playlist for The Haunted Heart is...

Somewhere in Between - Lifehouse
Is It Any Wonder - Keane
Dear Friend - Laura Browne Sorenson
Home - Phillip Phillips
Shadow of the Day - Linkin Park
Creole Love Call - Duke Ellington
Believe - K's Choice
First Time - Lifehouse
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
I Will Wait for You - Mumford & Sons
So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away - John Mills

I don't usually have much to add regarding music, but Black Velvet with Alannah Myles spells the mysterious South for me, and I think it is fitting for the last part of the story especially. It's not a cold song though, so not so much winter. But definitely mystery, and it is haunting :)

Anne wrote: "I don't usually have much to add regarding music, but Black Velvet with Alannah Myles spells the mysterious South for me, and I think it is fitting for the last part of the story especially. It's ..."

I love that song! :-)

Anne wrote: "I don't usually have much to add regarding music, but Black Velvet with Alannah Myles spells the mysterious South for me, and I think it is fitting for the last part of the story especially. It's ..."

Thank you, Anne. You were fast! A great song and here is the link for it:

Black Velvet by Alannah Myles

Can't believe that one was released 1989. It seems like yesterday. :-)

Johanna wrote: "Anne wrote: "I don't usually have much to add regarding music, but Black Velvet with Alannah Myles spells the mysterious South for me, and I think it is fitting for the last part of the story espe..."

Thank you for posting the link :)

Mazzy Star: Fade Into You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSxDo_...

and maybe...

K's Choice: Now is mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Q8dL...

K's Choice: Believe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvs1Vb...

Indigo Girls: Closer to Fine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgwM1...

Anne wrote: "Thank you for posting the link :)"

Yes, thank you, especially because I was already getting frustrated that I didn't know the songs you all seem to know, but when I heard the song I found out I danced many times on ''Black Velvet''.

All these playlist topics are so cool! I've never heard of Mazzy Star before and Breath Me by Sia... just wow.

This is just for fun: I don't have the finest idea what the lyrics say, but it's French (Flynn!!!) and beautifully played with guitar (Kirk!!!). LOL. Anyway, it's a nice song I want to share and something that hubby has been listening for a thousand times this summer. :-)

Onde Sensuelle by Fréro Delavega

I'm afraid the tone is too cheerful for Winter, BUT there ARE some cute guys in the video...

I've always loved this one. I think it works for Flynn, even though he is a young man.

Hurt by Johnny Cash

ETA: Originally recorded by Nine Inch Nails.

Just a couple of songs I listened to while reading the first couple of chapters.

Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
http://youtu.be/B8UeeIAJ0a0

Mad World - Gary Jules
http://youtu.be/hW93CV6m-JU

Those are both so lovely, Joe! They made me think of this one:

Fix You by Coldplay

That cover of Mad World is one of my favorite songs ever. I think it is appropriate for ''The Haunted Heart''.

Thank you for the Coldplay's song, dear Johanna, I didn't know it and it is beautiful.

KC wrote: "and maybe...

K's Choice: Now is mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Q8dL..."

Thank you so much for posting this one, KC. I've been listening to it a few times in a row now... it's beautiful. These playlist threads are such a great way to discover new favorites — and rediscover old ones. :-)

Thank you for K's Choice, I'd never heard of them before, love it.

Antonella wrote: "Thank you for the Coldplay's song, dear Johanna, I didn't know it and it is beautiful."

You are welcome, dear. Not everybody likes Coldplay, but this song is quite lovely, I think. Good night, everyone. :-)

Where the Wild Roses Grow by Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave

I love it but it scares me.

I can't be with you by The Cranberries (for Flynn)

You can easily fit it in Flynn's POV. They're probably singing about a break-up, though.

Calathea wrote: "Where the Wild Roses Grow by Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave

I love it but it scares me.

I can't be with you by The Cranberries (for Flynn)

You can easily fit it in Flynn's POV. They're probably singi..."

I actually have the CD where that Nick Cave/Kylie Minogue song is on, it is called "Murder Ballads". I just had to have it because of the title. Some good songs there too, and yes this one is beautiful and scary.

Calathea wrote: "Where the Wild Roses Grow by Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave

I love it but it scares me."

Oooh, I wrote an interesting short about that song. Scary indeed. Great song choice too.

Anne, Murder Ballads is a great CD. Mine is scratched from so much play.

Just heard this one and thought it would be perfect too.

Please Don't Find Me by Civil Twilight

Okay, some more:

While my guitar gently weeps sung by Eric Clapton in the concert for George Harrison (after his passing away, his son on the stage, playing guitar)

Who wants to live forever by Queen

Holding back the years by Simply Red

Such great songs here! I'm looking forward to listening to them this afternoon. So many new ones and some old favorites :-)

Johanna, Joe, i'm so glad you like K's Choice! :-) They have beautiful songs and lyrics, IMHO.

Here's something for the creepiness factor:

a scene from the opera "Der Freischütz" by Carl Maria von Weber, the ghostly choirs before Kaspar summons Samiel

and "Night on Bald Mountain" by Modest Mussorgsky

This might fit Kirk. Still trying to get a clear picture of him in my mind.

December 2 by Charles & Eddie

And something for the Jazz musician mentioned in the story.

Creole Love Call by Duke Ellington and his orchestra

Antonella wrote: "That cover of Mad World is one of my favorite songs ever. I think it is appropriate for ''The Haunted Heart''.

Thank you for the Coldplay's song, dear Johanna, I didn't know it and it is beautiful."

I agree, and both so beautiful! I didn't know this version of Mad World, but i really like it, and i do like Coldplay but this song is new to me. Cool! :-)

Joe wrote: "Just heard this one and thought it would be perfect too.

Please Don't Find Me by Civil Twilight"

It is!

Calathea wrote: "Okay, some more:

While my guitar gently weeps sung by Eric Clapton in the concert for George Harrison (after his passing away, his son on the stage, playing guitar)

Who wants to live forever by Q..."

Nick Cave, Eric Clapton, and Queen! *deepbreathsigh* Nick Cave is scary, but what a voice! and those other two just get to me...
:-)

Love this one too: Creole Love Call by Duke Ellington and his orchestra

Do you remember this? It could work for both of The Haunted Heart guys.

Save Me by Aimee Man

Johanna wrote: "Do you remember this? It could work for both of The Haunted Heart guys.

Save Me by Aimee Man"

I like it. :)

Oh, the lyrics of this one are surprisingly fitting. :-)

Madness by Muse

(I'm having so much fun browsing through my Spotify playlists! Josh should give us tasks like this more often... LOL.)

Calathea wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Do you remember this? It could work for both of The Haunted Heart guys.

Save Me by Aimee Man"

I like it. :)"

I'm glad you like it. It's a great song. I like the slow pace of it and the color, the tone of Aimee's voice. (ETA: If you liked that one, you might also like her One.)

Ok I'll give you music you'll never heard and two of them are actually haunted with death and despair......

First one is Móðir mín í kví, kví.... and it is about a child that was unwanted and carried out to die..... it comes back to haunt it's mother....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4qECg...


And this one is a lullaby from a play about two outlaws that actually existed and who threw their child to death into a waterfall on escape from lawman.... the child was slowing was them down so the mother sang the child to sleep before throwing it to it's death.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nfmf7...


And finally a hymn.... the oldest known hymn in all the Nordic countries.... written in 1208 by a man going into a battle, Kolbeinn Tumason. The night before the battle he sat down and wrote this hymn asking god for love and mercy because he was on his way to him..... called Heyr Himnasmiður (Hear Heavenly Creator)..... Kolbeinn died the day after in the battle. This is sang by an amazing singer from Faroe Island.... hauntingly beautiful voice. I can listen to this again and again and again....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP_Iee...



Hope this is ghostly enough..... even if you don't understand the lyrics....;)

Ame wrote: "First one is Móðir mín í kví, kví.... "

*gulp* Definitely something different. I don't know if I'm brave enough to listen to it...

And finally a hymn.... the oldest known hymn in all the Nordic countries....

This is so beautiful. And sad. *sigh*

Thank you, Ame!

Calathea wrote: "Ame wrote: "First one is Móðir mín í kví, kví.... "

*gulp* Definitely something different. I don't know if I'm brave enough to listen to it..."


You can do it.....;) However the song doesn't start until after about 10 seconds.

Here are some suggestions. Since I'm sending from my iPad, I'm not able to share the links. Sorry. I know the first and fourth are on on YouTube. The middle two are from Almerica, Lifehouse's new CD.

I Knew You Were Trouble - Chester See, Tyler Ward, Lindsey Stirling (Taylor Swift Cover). Not Taylor Swift signing, but I love this version

Always Somewhere Close
Between the Raindrops -- both by Lifehouse

If I Needed Someone -- The Beatles

I didn't mean to leave this one off my list and I know it's on youTube.

Ordinary -- Matt Gold

Beautiful, Ame! And thank you for the background stories for the songs.

Carlita and Sammie, great to see you here! Both Ordinary by Matt Gold and Nine Crimes by Damien Rice are lovely! Thank you so much for posting these. :-)

I wonder if there are any nice compositions (music) of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Break, Break, Break? Or are they all awfully dramatic?

And of course there should some song from Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight album, since it was jammed between Kirk's sofa cushions. ;-) I like Shadow of The Day and What I've done — I have them on my running playlist. :-)

Johanna wrote: "And of course there should some song from Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight album, since it was jammed between Kirk's sofa cushions. ;-) I like Shadow of The Day and What I've done — I have them on..."

Ha! "Shadow of the Day" is already on the playlist. It does get a mention in the story. :-D

So many great suggestions! I have to wait to listen because I took my desktop in and now the flipping sound doesn't work. ARGHHHHH. It's always some damn thing.

Josh wrote: "Johanna wrote: "And of course there should some song from Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight album, since it was jammed between Kirk's sofa cushions. ;-) I like Shadow of The Day and What I've done — I have them on..."

Ha! "Shadow of the Day" is already on the playlist. It does get a mention in the story. :-D"

Oh cool! That is a great song. :-)

Johanna wrote: "Anne wrote: "I don't usually have much to add regarding music, but Black Velvet with Alannah Myles spells the mysterious South for me, and I think it is fitting for the last part of the story espe..."

Black Velvet seems to suit Ines, doesn't it?

KC wrote: "Mazzy Star: Fade Into You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSxDo_..."

Oh I remember that song!

Lou wrote: "How about Breathe me by Sia?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFGvmr..."

That one's new to me. Interesting.

KC wrote: "and maybe...

K's Choice: Now is mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Q8dL...

K's Choice: Believe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvs1Vb...

Indigo Girls: Closer to Fine
http://www.youtube.com..."

Oh wow. I used to listen to K's choice all the time.

Josh wrote: "Black Velvet seems to suit Ines, doesn't it?"

It does indeed. :-)

I'm suddenly reminded there was a guitar piece I really liked and I thought I wrote the name down but now I can't find it. ARGH!

If nothing else, it's kind of relaxing listening to all this very cool music. :-)

Josh wrote: "I'm suddenly reminded there was a guitar piece I really liked and I thought I wrote the name down but now I can't find it. ARGH!"

Here it is. I'm not as disorganized as I fear.
http://www.amazon.com/So-Wind-Wont-Bl...